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Merriam-Webster has unveiled their latest and greatest LLM to date

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  1. [5]
    macleod
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    @cfabbro for the sake of being, literal, perhaps the artificial intelligence tag doesnt deserve to be on this post (-; but, language models.large certainly deserves to be there

    @cfabbro for the sake of being, literal, perhaps the artificial intelligence tag doesnt deserve to be on this post (-;

    but, language models.large certainly deserves to be there

    16 votes
    1. [4]
      cfabbro
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      Oh, hah. That's what I get for editing tags while lying in bed half asleep. I didn't realize it was satire. Well played, Merriam-Webster, well played! :P I see @mycketforvirrad already fixed it...

      Oh, hah. That's what I get for editing tags while lying in bed half asleep. I didn't realize it was satire. Well played, Merriam-Webster, well played! :P I see @mycketforvirrad already fixed it though.

      13 votes
      1. [3]
        mycketforvirrad
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        Weren't me guv, I swear! Must still have blurry eyes... 😉

        Weren't me guv, I swear! Must still have blurry eyes... 😉

        8 votes
        1. jredd23
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          Good thing I read the comments 1st!

          Good thing I read the comments 1st!

          5 votes
        2. cfabbro
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          Gosh darnit. I'm really falling apart in my old age, it seems. ;)

          Gosh darnit. I'm really falling apart in my old age, it seems. ;)

          4 votes
  2. DefinitelyNotAFae
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    Thank you, for sharing this, I had found it a few days ago (ish, mortal time is confusing) and meant to pass it on because I laughed a lot.

    Thank you, for sharing this, I had found it a few days ago (ish, mortal time is confusing) and meant to pass it on because I laughed a lot.

    15 votes
  3. DougM
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    Okay, that was really well done!

    Okay, that was really well done!

    7 votes
  4. [3]
    chocobean
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    Very late to the party but that was well done. Great job marketing team. Words having stable meaning feels comforting these days. long tangent on the Frieren manga, and words: Preface: humans are...

    Very late to the party but that was well done. Great job marketing team.

    Words having stable meaning feels comforting these days.

    long tangent on the Frieren manga, and words:

    Preface: humans are not demons and we should never treat our human adversaries as anything less than human.

    In Sousou No Frieren, the eponymous elf character Frieren recalls a time when a young demon facing execution calls out for its mother, because it has learned that it is a magical word that triggers human compassion, which it see as a weakness to exploit.

    In chapter 15, a human tries to kill the demon Lügner as revenge on behalf of his son who was killed by demons. Upon hearing this, Lügner looks around the room and says, "this room undergoes meticulous cleaning regularly. I am sure that it has remained untainted for the last ten years. I, too, have kept my father's room perfectly intact. My father, whom you people have killed." The human relents and lets Lügner go. Later in private, a junior demon asks, "what is a father?", to which Lügner replies, "who knows?"

    Humans are not demons, but human beings can freely choose to use words as dark magic. When we choose to lie, we are using words as a magic spell, to trigger compassion, to falsely plead for fairness, to deceive in order to take advantage etc. When I lie, I am freely choosing to not behave in a Godly way that is loving and honest to each other; when I lie, I know that I am choosing to behave in a demonic manner.

    When some people say "thoughts and prayers" or "now's not the time" or "this isn't love we must hate the sin" or "think of the children" etc, some of them are imitating the words of people who use them truthfully in love, as lies and magic spells. What is a "prayer"? What is "life"? What is "peace"? Who knows.

    7 votes
    1. [2]
      first-must-burn
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      Thoughts on your tangent I find the idea of language as "neuro-lingusitic hacking" to be really fascinating. Couple of fiction works that explore this are Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson and Lexicon...
      Thoughts on your tangent

      I find the idea of language as "neuro-lingusitic hacking" to be really fascinating. Couple of fiction works that explore this are Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson and Lexicon by Max Barry.

      Your comments about language and manipulation reminded me of this podcast:

      "Black Magic Christians"

      Stephen Backhouse is a political theologian, and I found much of his teaching to be really interesting and useful. The whole first season of Followers of the Way was pretty instrumental in moving away from anger to a better place dealing with my own issues with the evangelical Christian community. But that episode in particular deals with the idea of black magic (domination of one will over another) and sets it in opposition to the idea of kenosis (gentle space making for other wills).

      3 votes
      1. chocobean
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        We're reading Snowcrash right now as a family, pretty wild ride so far :) I'll be on the lookout for neuro linguistics hacking Thanks for the podcast too and I'm glad you are able to move past the...

        We're reading Snowcrash right now as a family, pretty wild ride so far :) I'll be on the lookout for neuro linguistics hacking

        Thanks for the podcast too and I'm glad you are able to move past the anger. I'm working on mine :)

        3 votes